Kristine McIntyre has directed more than 100 operas with a focus on new, contemporary and American works, including the new co-production of Floyd’s Of Mice and Men (Houston Grand Opera, Lyric of Kansas City, Des Metro Opera); technologically-innovative immersive productions of The Cunning Little Vixen and Bluebeard’s Castle with internationally-famous visual composer Oyoram; and the world premiers of Jennifer Higdon and Jerre Dye’s Woman With Eyes Closed, Laura Kaminsky and Kimberly Reed’s Hometown to the World (Santa Fe Opera and Town Hall NYC), Kristin Kuster and Mark Campbell’s A Thousand Acres, based on the Pulitzer-Prize winning novel by Jane Smiley, the planetarium opera Galaxies in Her Eyes by Mark Lanz Weiser and Amy Punt, and the opera film Unknown for UrbanArias.
Other recent productions include Moby Dick, Dark Sisters, Flight, Wozzeck, Dead Man Walking, Billy Budd and Manon (regional Emmy awards), the world premiers of The Place Where You Started, Mirror Game, Jane Eyre and John Brown; new productions of Peter Grimes, Jenüfa, Sweeney Todd, Trouble in Tahiti, The Seven Deadly Sins, Street Scene, As One, Glory Denied, Soldier Songs, Florencia en el Amazonas, The Coronation of Poppea, Semele, Vanessa, The Human Voice, The End of the Affair, Three Decembers, The Turn of the Screw, Eugene Onegin, La bohème, Lucia di Lammermoor, La cenerentola, Cosi fan tutte, Un ballo in maschera, Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, Werther and Les Contes d’Hoffmann, and many revivals of her critically acclaimed film-noir adaption of Don Giovanni.
Upcoming projects include new productions of Postcard from Morocco with Madison Opera and Kanopy Dance, the Philip Glass Orphée for Des Moines Metro Opera and a 10-year anniversary revival of her Emmy-award winning production of Billy Budd.
In addition to her opera film Unknown, Kristine has directed many other projects for the digital realm, including the Studio Artist Showcase for Houston Grand Opera in 2020, 2021, a recital series for the Portland Opera’s Resident Artist program and the Women in Politics recital featuring works by Stacey Garrop and Jake Heggie for Portland Opera at Home. She has collaborated with several companies on the filming of her bilingual Spanish-English adaptation of The Barber of Seville, one of the many operas she has adapted and directed for education and community opera programs throughout the
country.
Passionate about the training of the next generation of opera artists, Kristine has also taught and directed in many young artist programs, including those at Houston Grand Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, San Francisco Opera, Music Academy of the West, Portland Opera, Pittsburgh Opera and The Santa Fe Opera. She regularly mentors young directors, composers and librettists and has served on the steering committee of the Women’s Opera Network at Opera America, as well as several national grant panels for arts funding.
Kristine began her opera career at the San Francisco Opera and then spent eight years on the directing staff of the Metropolitan Opera where she directed numerous revivals.
With a background in theater, Kristine founded and was the artistic director of everyman, a San Francisco-based theater company. She also collaborated with Rebecca Salzer Dance Theater with whom she co-created pieces of dance / spoken word theater including Skywatch! and Bird Lady, which explores the life and work of street photographer Vivian Maier. For many years, she was a reader and educator for the Playwrights Project, critiquing plays as part of their California-wide playwriting competition. Kristine holds a B.A. in English Literature from Georgetown University, spent her junior at Oxford University studying and directing Shakespeare and has an M.A. in Theatre from the University of Hull in England.
